@oken
Try activating twenty twelve theme or bp-default and see if the issue persists. It would help if you would also supply the name of the theme. If you have plugins enabled other than BuddyPress then disable them as well so you can try to isolate if the issue is plugin or theme related.

Alright, I figured out what was braking the theme! Because I was turning off the friends feature since I’m going use BuddyPress Follow , one of the components in the header that called for pending friends request must have some how messed up things. Which when you think about it makes sense, since the header was the only thing that was working.